Weaving Baskets

Curriculum Integration​Subject Integration: HistoryContent Standards:VA.Cr1.1.1a - Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.​VA.Cr1.2.1a - Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.​VA.Cr2r.1.1a Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design​VA.Cr.2.2.1a - Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.​VA: Cr2.3.1a - Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means.VA: Cr3.1.1a - Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.​VA:Re7.1.1a - Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others.VA:Re7.2.1a - Compare images that represent the same subject​VA:re8.1.1a - Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.​VA:Re9.1.1a - Classify artwork based on different reasons for preferences.​VA:Pr4.1.1a - Explain why some objects, artifacts and artwork are valued over others.​VA:Pr5.1.1a - Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why and how artwork should be prepared for presentation or​VA: Pr6.1.1a - Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.​VA:Cn10.1.1a - Identify times, places and reasons by which students make art outside of school.​VA: Cn11.1.1a Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

OBJECTIVE/ASSESSMENT​OBJECTIVE:​Students will:​- learn to use a ruler to draw straight horizontal and vertical lines- learn to weave- learn to glue in an alternating patternRUBRICS:​Students will be graded by completion.​MATERIALS & PROCEDURESRulerPencil​Scissorsconstruction paper - assorted colorsPROCEDURES:Students are shown the color wheel and discuss color schemes - Primary, Complementary, Analogous, and Tertiary. They pick a scheme to use for their basket.Students take one piece of 12 x 12 construction paper.Take a ruler and draw one horizontal line at the top.They rotate the ruler and draw vertical lines from the horizontal line to the bottom of the paper.Students cut from the bottom of the paper to the horizontal line.Students number each line (circling the odd and triangling the evens)Students raise all odds (circled numbers) up to the horizontal line.Students place glue on the even numbered portion as close as they can to the top and place another piece of construction paper horizontally across.Students place glue on the horizontal strip (under the odd strips that have been raised) then strip is folded back down.Students repeat steps, but this time, even is raised.Alternating steps from odd to even to odd to even.Students keep going to they get to the end of the paper.Students three squares in from each side and make a folded crease.Students cut three squares in from the top and the bottom of each crease.Students fold in like barn doors.Students staple sides together to form a basketStudents add a handle.